Investment Company News

22 Feb 2016

Greencoat sees strong wind generation offset lower power prices

Greencoat UK Wind has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2015. During the period, the company’s NAV per share grew by 0.48% to 104.5p but, including dividend (6.26p) the company has provided an NAV total return of 6.6%. During the year, portfolio power generation was 8% above budget at 799.3GWh (the […]

22 Feb 2016

Hibernia REIT to acquire Central Quay, in Dublin’s South Docks, for €51.3m

Hibernia REIT has announced that it has exchanged contracts to acquire Central Quay, a modern office building located between Sir John Rogerson’s Quay and Hanover Quay in the South Docks area of Dublin, for €51.3m. Central Quay (pictured), was completed in 2007 and is a 57,700 square foot office building, arranged over six floors, with 26 […]

22 Feb 2016

CVC Credit Partners not seeing deterioration of credit quality

CVC Credit Partners reports an increase in its NAVs from €1.0247 to €1.0257 for its Euro share class and 102.87p to 103.52p for its Sterling share class over the course of 2015. The share prices of the two share classes fell by 2.9% and 4.0% respectively. Dividends totalling 5 cents / 5p were also paid. […]

22 Feb 2016

Custodian REIT acquired B&Q retail warehouse in Banbury for £6.5m

Custodian REIT has announced that it has a 34,955 square foot retail warehouse in Banbury, currently let to B&Q, for £6.525m. The warehouse is located one mile from junction 11 of the M40 and within walking distance of the town centre and railway station. Nearby occupiers include Wickes, Halfords, Homebase, Dunelm Mill, Topps Tiles and […]

22 Feb 2016

Amedeo Air Four Plus buys fifth A380

Amedeo Air Four Plus Limited, via its wholly-owned subsidiary AA4P Epsilon Limited, on 19 February 2016 purchased directly from Airbus one A380 aircraft bearing manufacturer’s serial number 206 at a net cost to the Company of US$275 million.  The Aircraft is the Fifth Asset to be acquired by the Company. Following acquisition of the Aircraft, AA4P Epsilon […]

22 Feb 2016

Ecofin continuation vote fixed for 14 June

The Board of Ecofin Power & Water Opportunities has announced that the continuation vote referred to in the Chairman’s statement in the company’s annual report will take place at a General Meeting expected to be held on Tuesday, 14 June, 2016. As explained in the Chairman’s statement in the annual report, the Board is currently considering […]

22 Feb 2016

UK Floods take edge off good year for CatCo

CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund has published its Annual Report. For the year ended 31 December 2015, it achieved a net NAV return for shareholders of 11.58%, exceeding the target annual net return of LIBOR plus 9 to 12% per annum. CATCo also outperformed the industry benchmark, the Eurekahedge ILS Advisors Index, by 7.31%. They say […]

22 Feb 2016

BlueCrest holders to benefit from CDS litigation

  BlueCrest Capital Management Limited has made a statement which we reproduce below: “CDS Settlement  Dear Investor,  We are writing to inform you of a positive development that we believe will affect the BlueCrest managed funds listed below.  As you may have read in the press, there has been a recent settlement of a U.S. […]

22 Feb 2016

Dunedin Enterprise sells CitySprint

Dunedin Enterprise Investment Trust says its largest investment, CitySprint, has been realised with a portion of the proceeds being rolled over into a new company (“New CitySprint”). The realisation of CitySprint values the company at £175m and generates proceeds of £26.1m for Dunedin Enterprise. This compares to a valuation at 30 September 2015 of £23.2m. […]

22 Feb 2016

M&G High Income to offer rollover options next year

M&G High Income says, on a net asset value basis, each Package Unit  delivered a negative total return of 3.6% over the  six months to 30 November 2015. This was above the  returns of the FTSE 350 Higher Yield Index and the FTSE All-Share Index, which were a negative 9.4% and  6.4% respectively over the same period. Over the six months […]